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LOOKING BACKWARD , Latham Writes of First Spinning Mill in Chester. A CRUDE BUT SERVICEABLE AFFAIR First Mill Used Only 300 Bales of Cotton a Year?Destroyed by Sherman's Army in 1865. S. H. Ijathnn in Chester Reporter. One of the many changes in the South caused by the results of th.Civil war was the evolution of thV textile industry, which hitherto had almost exclusively been confined to the Now England states. The first fulling mill operated south of Virginia way built near the mouth of Fishing Creek where it empties into the Catawba river, in Chester county. This mill was built about the yea,i* 178S, and was used for dyeing, fulling and pressing the cloth woven by the persons in this vicinity and was said to have been done in a very satisfactory manner. This was at lirst confined entirely to woolen cloth but ' gradually extended its operations to cotton cloth. In the early part of the 19th century nearly every family hud its spinning wheel and hand loom. There-were two varieties of spinning wheels. One operated by hand while the operator walked back and forth drawing out the thread. -After the style of multspinning, this required very little skill to operate and was mostly used by negro women to spin yarn to be woven into cloth for the slaves on the larger plantations, and also, to utilize the labor of the negro women during the winter months. The other variety was operated by foot power and was used mostly by white woman sitting by the side of the wheel and working it with her feet, like working a sewing machine. This made a much smootHT-r and finer yarn than the other wheel. After the yarn wafc spun it was then reeled off the spools by a hand reel into hanks and then taken to a warper, and finally to the loom where it was woven. A good weaver could weave about four yards a day of pln/Sn eloth throwing one shuttle, or, if woolen jeans with two shuttles, two or throe yards. The iuw wool and cotton were carded into rolls with hand cards about a foot and four inches wide, equipped with wire teeth. One of these was held stationary on the kneo/and cotton pr wool was placed on its teeth, with the other side this was carded until the fibers were straightened out, then it was taken off in a roll. A carder could card about as many of these rolls as a spinner could spin. In the early 50's Mr. Daniel Me Cullough built u spinning mill on Catawba river near where the Republic Cotton Mills now stands. The Fingerville Mill in Spartanburg county and the old Saluda Mill in Lexington county antedated this mill a few years. Mr. McCulloiigh operated this by water power obtained from the Catawba river. The operators were all slaves from his plantation except the superintendent and heads of the different departments and the cotton used for spinning was chiefly grown on \ his own plantation. The yarns produced were course, numbers Si's, 10's and Ill's, and were put up in five and ten pound bales, which he peddled out through Chester and adjoining counties, selling to the merchants who in turn sold them to the different families to be woven into cloth. This yarn was mostly used for warps, tin tilling being spun in these homos on spinning wheels. A bale of cotton .it this time weighed about 300 pounds. This mill was a very crude affair in comparison with me present ua> cotton mill. It <1 id not use more than three hundred hales of cotton in a year, hut paid Mr. MoCullough a very good i>r??llt on his raw cotton. When Sherman's army passed through lliii section in 1S65 it was burned together with everything else in his line of march. Mr. McCullough died shortly after and the ruill was never rebuilt. 'I lis property finally fell into the possession of the Southern Power company, and now -he Republic Cotton mills, a magnificent manulacturing plant stands within a few hundred yards of where the McCullough mill stood. A wonderful evolution from the fulling mill to McCullough's Mill and now the Croat Falls hyrdo-oJcetric plant and Republic Mills, now using as much cotton in a week as the McCullough factory did in a whole year. Tbo ho ne spinning and weaving gradually grew into disuse, especially in mi. king white cloth as a better article i on!.I l.c bought comparatively cheap. A I'cHj plantations kept it up to utilize the lal>or of negro women during the winter months. The smaller tanners who generally kept a flock of sheet), the wool of which was spun and woven into homemade jeans, blankets tiind knit, into socks. This jean was durable and warm and clothed all the male members comfortably during the winter. Very few store clothes wore ! used by these sturdy toilers of the farm and yoemcn of tlie country. After South Carolina seceded from th" t'nion, war was declared and we were cdiut out Irnm the rest of the world commercially. The only way to replenish the wardrobe was to do so i within ourselves, cons< ma ntly, the j old spinning wheels wire brought out of the garrets and outhouses < il...... V....1 | where many <m un ... attired away as relic:; of the past and 3>ressed into services. Those wlio c*onI?I :pin and weave went to work with a vim, those who could not learned Co I business. anii, ns .1 un.m wlieel :iii<I loom vert* as common in I lint homes as knives ami fork . 4 The ladies till from patriotic motivi yi jMM'essity wore liuniesjmn dresses i - i r Many of them spun, woven'and made by their own hands. Men's wear came ; | under the same rule. This was one . j time that everybody was on an equal- i ity as to dress. I After the war the spinning' wheel , and loom were soon discarded and, j j today.can only he found as curios in j a few homes. Many of the younger ; set of today never saw on^ of these wheels or looms on which their grand mothers spun or wove uie ciowuns i"> t lie family. S. B. Lathan. Chester, S>. C., Sept. 12, 1921. \ "spain ! b legion ! news Conducted by Lewis M. Crist, Publicity Officer, Mccch Stewart Post, No. 6C. 0 Join Now There are in York county as in other J 'counties scores of ex-soldiers entitled I to membership in the American Legion ^ j who are not members. If It is a ques-. tinn of not ioininsr because of not hav- i I ins: the necessary $3 at liaml that can 1 I easily be arranged by seeing the post ! commander or the adjutant. It's worth a lot to any young ma^n to be connected with this greatest of all I soldier organizations. Think about it and come on in. New State Commander. Morris C. Lumpkin, the new state j commander is the kind of a man who] can do a lot to boost the American Le- | gion in South Carolina and who Willi | do just that. Lumpkin who is a law-j f yer of Columbia, is one of the. best 1 known young men of Columbia. In n 1 speech to post commanders and adju- ' tants at the third annual convention in J Newberry Commander Lumpkin pledged himself to visit any post at any! i tinio his services were called for and i to promote the American Legion in 1 South Carolina in any way possible. Under the Same Flag. Now that the third annual State! Iconvention is over let us back thej American Legion with a united membership. We arc all working for the good of' the organization and whether we were born in South Carolina or not, remember we wore in the same | army, navy or marine corps and stood j i under the same flag, and today we [ stand for the same principles. Those ; principles are broader than tho con! fines of this state, and the policy of the American Legion siyiuld be as broad. Every right thinking man who saw serl'iee during the World j War should be welcomed into the legion, and when ho jean be of service, use him. News Notes. Australian soldiers claim to receive the hiirho.-t paj and the best eipii|)- | meat, as well as nodical euro equal to any in tire world. 1'i-oni tlw first day of the World War to the first day <>f demobilization, tin many lost 1,80S,545 men, in-1 eluding 52,006 officers. Tennessee is distinguished with having' the first National fJu.ird Air! Service Squadron in the United States, I j with hangars and equipment at Nash-1 ' ville. Two hundred American soldiers who fought in the World War are serving sentences in French civil prisons for various infractions of the laws of thdt country, i Two French marshals, Joffre and I'oyolle, and (feneral liadoglio, commander-in-chief of the Italian army, have been made members of the Army land Navy Club of America. The disaimament conference will be held in the hall of the Americans in j the Pan-American building. Washing-j ton, D. C. The conference, it is said,! will last at least two months. Legislatic.il of twenty-one states has j provided cash bonuses to former i soldiers totaling $:i70,Ihtft,2U0, or approximately $75 each for every man in j service during the World War. Instead of destroying cigars and j cigarettes seized by the government for tax delinquency, it is proposed in Washington to turn over the sup-1 >Xjg LEAD Ik f ZINC ' I FAINT j mill i i 1M? <lX S- ^CW :tJ*- isJBP30? OSb I , LOGAN LUMBER ( ply to hospitals in which disabled soldiers arc quartered. Of the 79 Congressional Medals of Honor awarded by the U. S. government for distinguished service in the World War, there are fifty-five survivors who possess the coveted medals, the highest award for bravery. The burial of an unidentified American soldier in the National cemetery, at Arlington, Virginia, on Aimistice! Day, November 11, it is said, will draw the most notable assemblage since the peace conference at Versail- j ICS. The war cripples in the Allied countries and in Germany have formed organizations to protect their .rights, and all have powerful senators, deputies and leading citizens espousing their cause, and protecting and safeguaiding their interests. "Rev. John \V. Inzer, national chaplain of ttfe American Region, has offered to marry, without cost, all legion men who visit the third annual national convention of the organization, at Kansas City, October 31, November 1 and 2. Of the Allied countries to pay bonuses to their service men, Knglanl paid from $41 each to private soldiers to $7,290 to officers, France paid each of ht r discharged soldiers $233.5S as a bonus, Canada paid from $090 to $4,7f>8, Australia paid from $38 to $751, and Italy paid from $64 to $850. HIGH PRICES COMING ^ ^ ' * ' J? Ow?vi rti+ltw t-otton (jOOCiS moviny up I ri W/Klf/M*!!/ With Cotton. New York, Sept. 10?Cotton poods markets have been much unsettled by the erratic cotton market and many lines of poods are oil the market until Cotton values are steadier. High prices on all cotton poods are inevitable as the active trading this year ; was predicted ur>on cotton at 11 or 12 j cents, while manufacturers now say they must pay around 20 cents. The certainty of higher values has | aroused interest oh the part of buyers of large organization that need goods but have not lajught because of poor general business conditions. Ootj ton duck, (ire duck, drills, and some I other lines that weiV- full have been |advanced in price and more sales are | neing made. Print cloths are 1-2 ce-nt. | The branded trade-marked lines of I sheets, pillow cases, bleeched jmislins, I percales and many other cottons are yet to be revised on the higher price I levels. | In the meantime! nominal quotations are given out. and only spot goods are la-ing sold. Manufacturers have not la-en able to buy sjx>t cotton on the levels quoted in speculative centers, and have thus la-en unable to maka firm prices on goods to be : made. There is much questioning among merchants and jobbers as to their ability to sell as freely as they j have la-en doing after prices are nd| vanced and only a test of the situation. following stability in cotton will j relieve the market tension. Yarns nre | very film on the higher levels and I many knit goods prices are living revised\ upward. Prices current arc rs follows: Print- cloths, 28 inch C4.\64s, 6 1-2 cents, 64x60s, 6 1-4 cents; 3S 1-2 inch 61x64s, 9 1-2 cents; brown sheetings. Southern standards. 13 con's; denims j 220, indigo, l"> cents to is 1-2 cents; j I ticking, 21 cents lo 22 1-2 cents; staple ! I ginghams. 14 1-2 cents; dress ging- j j hams. 18 1-2 cents to 20 cents; prints, | | 11 cents. ou:ri,3rv, Notice.?A newspaper man I v"" * **" 1 - -- " ~ I I has to resist the temptation to give vent [ to his feelings against some ornery ens'!, but in doing that he sometimes leaves out interesting reading matter. One of the most widely read obituaries was written by the editor of a small paper in Montpelier, away out on the plains of North Dakota, and that editor turned himself loose thusly: Died?Aged fifty-six years, six months and thirteen days. He ,vas a mild-mannered pirate, with a mouth fVir whisky, lie came here in the night with another man's wife and joinell the chuiVh at the first seance. He owed us several dollars for the paper, a large meat bill and you could hear him pray six hhx ks. He died singing, t ".Jesus paid it all,"' and we think he is right?he never paid anything himself, lie was buried in an asbestos casket, and bis friends threw palm leaf fans in his grave, as he may need them.? Monroe (N. C.) Enquirer. ? Vergil, whose "Aeneid" is the typical l.atin epic, was the son of a small , farmer. FREE! Enough Devoe al^ Lead and Zinc Pair.c R?* for your house?IF ft? ?under actual test, Devoe doesn't fit", wear a year or two or three years WIT longer ? longer and bcficr ?than 0 my ether paint you chocicl Or?paint half your houae with n Devoe, and the other half with M? whatever ycu like. H?- 1 It' Devoe doesn't take fewer gallons fl and cost less money, we'll make re? ' no charge for Devoe! g?J Can you afford to pass this offer B~l without investigation?; rj hcrx-npPnnntrrTSxr- B/ erovfn.-backcd by 166 years' experi tncc of the oldest paint manufacturing . concern in the U.S. Founded 1754. Sold by th: Dezoe Agent j^r " in your community An? \ COTTON SEED Wante I \VK WANT TO m y every Cotton Seed we con fjet delivered at our warehouse. We will ffiake it to your interest to bring US. your Seed. IF YOU WANT BREAD AND PIES Like "Mother used to bake," just try One Sack of TUBEROSE BEST Patent Flour. We have a solid earload of this flour rolling that we can sell you while the supply lasts at $3.75 per sack. The same Flour in SelfRising at $4.00 per sack. Take ad vantage of the opportunity and buy Flour for LESS than it is worth. 60 lbs. Tub of I?ard for $7.75. A 50 lbs. Bag of Parched or Ground Coffee for $6.50. A good grade of Green Coffee, 8 lbs. for $1.00. These goods were bought right?We want to divide with YOU. FERGUSON & YOUNGBLOOD J. C. WILBORN I OFFER FOR SALE 78 Acre*?One-fourfli mile of New Zion church and school. Good barn, 5- , room residence. Price, $2,730. Proper- " ty of Geo. W. Wilson. 200 Acre3?Three miles of the city of Rock Hill. Four-room residence on place: 80 acres in cultivation; balance In timber and pasture. Price, $30.00 per Acre. 225 Acre*?Very fine productive farm; two miles of Ebonezer, about 1 mile of the incorporate limits of Rock Hill; 1 mile of Winthrop College; 5 tenant houses; 3 barns. Tills is a very fine farm, close to the. best school for girls in the South. Price, $20,000.00. 55 Acres?At Floyd Jackson's store. Two-horse farm. Nice farm for sale or rent. I A'.n Ar-rr.c nf ?10.00 BSr Acre. 1 licit i; TWU V. v T. , - I have 14C Acres at $10.00 per Acre. I have Land at ail prices. 33 1-3 Acres?The property of T. L. Crawford. Price, $40.00 per Acre. 113 Acres?Beautiful G-room house, two miles of York. Price, $7,500.00. 821-2 Acres?Four miles of Bethany, the property of J. F. Oofoi th. Price, $30.00 per Acre. 450 Acres?The property of E. W. Guy; 50 acres in bottoms, $10.00 per Acre. 146 Acres?The property of W. R. Thomassoir! Price, $10.00 per Acre. Terms to suit. 37 Acres?Half mile of Santiago school and Ramah church. A good 3>room house. Price, $1,300. The property of W. M. McCarter. 160 Acres?The property of J. M. Me- | Garity, near Delphos. Price, $40.00 per Acri. 1171-10 Acres?Near Delphos, the property of H. it. Merritt, one of the best farms in York county. Price, $8,500. 35 3-4 Acres?At Filbert, the property of Thompson McAbee. Price. $3,038. Six room house and on the State highway. 59 1-4 Acres?Two good houses, near New Zion, formerly the property of Geo. 15. Wallace. Price, $1,500. Terms to suit. 94 Acres?At Tirzah station; GO acres under cultivation; 25 acres in timber; | , 10/hcres in bottom land. Price, $60.00 : per Acre. I 58 Acres-^Ono and o half miles of Cotton Belt school house; five-room house; 30 acres in cultivation. The property of Joe W. Smith. Price, $35.00 per Acre. , 59 Acres?Property of Joe W. Smith. One dwelling, 4 rooms; barn and crib. Price, $35.00 per Acre. 70 Acres?At Filbert, the home of S. M. White. Price, $79.00 per Acre. 35 Acres?Adjoining King's Moun tain Chapel. Price, $60.00 per Acre. 69 Acres?On Clover and, York road at Allison creek bridge; 4-room house. | The property of Woods ?fc Pursley. Price, $50.00 per Acre. 45 Acres?Nice painted 5-room cottage; good mill site, 2 1-2 miles of Hickory Grove* Price, $3,000.00. 40 Acres?On Rock Hill and York j road, about one mile of Tirzah. Price* $1,500. The property of A. E. Willis, Junior. 125 Acres?The home of H. N. Alexander, near New Zion school, about .30 acres in cultivation; 75 in timber and tine cross ties. Price, $1,580.00. 60 1-2 Acres?One mile of Filbert tation: 50 acres under cultivation. Price, $65.50 per Acre. The property of L. H. Castles. 39 Acres?Six-room house, half mile of Santiago school. Price, $2,100.00. 40 Acres?Adjoining lands of R. L. Riggers, one mile of Santiago school. J The property of G. Price Clark. Price.! $70.00 p?r Acre. Terms to suit. 420 Acres?Ebenezer township. One) 8-room residence; 4 tenant houses; 3 barns; 2 1-2 miles of Newport, Price, $32,000.00. 170 Acres?Ebenezer township, one mile of Winthrop; 1 residence, 2 story, !? rooms, with bath and electric lights. Embracing depot and side track. I 43 1-2 Acres?Two miles of York; 3ronm house. $30.00 per Acre. : 144 Acres?Fine land, plenty of wood.! on Lower Rock Hill road; two good j houses. This is an ideal farm. Two j j ...1.1 t n't ,.nn\. at I lurnis UUJOiniilg wen- nuiu iu.il ??K.i , . $150.00 per acre. Will accept $65.00 per 1 Acre fur quick sale. 50 Acres? Adjoining the town ot. York. Two houses, barns and in good . state of cultivation. Price, $1,800. J Carnegie got rich by buying when everybody wanted to sell. Be careful, but buy your home now. I have many. Farms for sale. Come and talk with' me. I have the Land at the RIGHT; PRICE. Tell me what you want. I can find j it for you. Do not fail to see me. J. C. WILBORN ffSJ PYRAMID PAINT SHOP .ROCK HILL. S. C. YOUR CAR-- J I HAS J5EKN running a year or morel _ ?iu till sorts of weather?sunshine and j " rain -probably looks a little rusty?it I * needs a new coat of paint?Our kind? 3 it will make the car look better and 3 you will leel better because the car is g Ik ttor looking. See us uooui u. .uei m US PAINT YOUR CAR NOW. It will bring more if you want to sell it l or trade it in for a now car?it's a fact, j A FIRST GLASS TOP j < >u that old car will help out too. It j will add more than the cost of the top ( to its appearance, besides the satisfao- i tion you will have by knowing: that you I have a Hair.-Proof and Sun-Proof Top < on your old boat. See us about it. De- j lighted to give you a price on the job. < Workmanship? Quality? The HKST.jj JAS. A. JOHNSON, Prop. i| V YORK F^l M flHHH NEW LOT OF CHOICE ] We have a choice bum now?arrived a few days for a Mule or two come an exchange and give you a MULES JAMES Bf ij OIL MILL PRODUCT ! See us for a good cxc We have nice bright jj OUR GINNERIES ARE THAN THEY j I ROLLER MILLJ i Grinds Wheat, Corn an Feed, Chicken Feed, II< J i Hay, Flour and Corn money. j| DEALERS IN COAL AND il Y0RKVR1E COTTOI SERVICE- I [s Our Watch Word ] I BUY YOUR i GASOLINE and OIL from US and ? J SAVE MONEY. j| ! 1 I. H. CARROLL liyvwwwvwvwwvwwwvwvvuvwvyy S. L. C OI Sal" THE UNIVEF 48 S. Main St. fvwwwwwuwvwwwwww f floors for tKe little folks? enl^ heated house da>? ana fires to build on cold morn- \ m room to dress in?remarkfuel mone^ -pJitK a Cole's Original iter. hstruction, powerful radiating bocty 1 F ^OLE'C ^ HOT BLAST sj I SAVING SYSTEM ' means 1-5 to {-* fuel /jj I Cole's Hot Blast makes | about out fuel ^55#^ M ng guarantee IITURE CO. ! ?mmmmmmmmmmm+mm?m n mM i JBL ~ MULES? ' / / ft * :-li of Mules at our barns ago. If you have a nped d see us. We will sell or fair deal. [OTHERS H0EaES j! I 1 : i liange of Meal for Seed. < \ - Hulls. i IN BETTER SHAPE jj j rE EVER BEEN. jj ' d Oats. Sells Flour, Hog ! [ * Drse and Mule Feed, Oats, J ! y Meal. Try us and save < | J ICE. j! < OIL COMPANY jj j {. C. Brocklngton F. L. Hinnant ^ J W. M. Brown 5aImetto Monument Co. ' YORK, - - 3. C. iVhy Pay an Agent i; Profit?. Wo know that the Agent has to live, tut let the other fellow keep him up. Xal Direct with the ? " ' - - UAllllklPliT O A t PAL-IVI t I IU muinumcii i \j\s., York, S. C.; Phone No. 121. If you wish us to call we will be glad , o have one of our firm call on You. Ve do not travel agents. " We can and will do your work at as ' _ow a Price and as Good in Quality as ?ny one in the business. Try Us, is all :hal we ask. You be the judge. I [ PALMETTO MONUMENT CO. 'Honor Them With a Monument." j* } ^ URTNEY |; Service j} ISAl CAR. YUJtCA, S. Kj. | rwvvvwwwvwvvwwAAAftA* deceived Tlfe Week--- \ Shipment of Bringing- and Ties. > Galvanized Roofing. Cotton Sheets. Molasses Barrels. Dairy Pfe^d. ; Mill Ffted. V Horse. Feed. > K Chicken Feed. L4rd ind Meal. ' Sug^r and Flour. Full Bloom Tobacco?20 Cts. 10 Cts. Snuff?.08 Ct?. IED, APPLER and FULGUM SEED OATS. YORK SUPPLY CO. Wholesale and Retail. . a, ' -ALL PAINTING Is considered, by all paint authorities s the BEST time of the y^ar to apply louse Paint. We are selling and guaranteeing GLIDDEN'S" Paints, which we belevo to be second to none on the larket. ' ,V 3 One of our local p&Lnters, when askd by a prospective buyer, what he hought of GLIDDEN'S, said: "I HAVE BEEN PAINTING FOR rHIRTY-FJVE YEAR8, AND FIND rHAT IT WORK8 BETTER AND 10VER8 MORE 8URFACE THAN VNV PAINT RER GALLON THAT I HAVE EVER USED." Its analysis shows ninety-one per ent lead*and zinc, only nine per cent nert matter to keep it from "crawlng." ASK FOR PRICES 'HEY ARE RIGHT? and the most *t+ ractive terms ever offered by a paint oncern. Paint Up and Preserve Your 'roperty, with GLIDDEN'S. PEOPLES FURNITURE COMPANY ' . \ ?HMHi I IN OUR FACTORY ON THE PREMISES We design, make and furnish for your individual eye needs any kind, style or shape lens ? known .to the optical world. WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN EYE NEEDS FOR GLAS8E3. Eyes examined?Glasses Fitted. Broken Lenses Duplicated Whie You Wait COMPAQ Hampton Street ROCK HILL, 8. C. ggg HflHi APPRECIATION? ; OUR GROWING BUSINESS is cerainly proving to us that the people of his town and community appreciate ne oervice, me vu<*ui.ies ana tu?u urc 'rices to be had at this store, and we s. vant every one of our customers to mow that we are very appreciative of he patronage that is coming our way. New customers are finding our store ind getting acquainted with our service almost evfery day and when our jlace is once visited we are sure to lave the pleasure of serving you again. OUR BUSINESS SYSTEM is an old me, but lots of folks are not acquaintd with it; but it is a fact that CASH ilways buys for LESS than credit, and ?y CARRYING your own purchases ou make an additional saving. Yes, to be sure we appreciate your >atronage, be it, much or little, and in eturn we will continue to serve you o the best of our ability in Quality, iuick Service and Right Prices. CASH & CARRY STORE HONEST SERVICE S WHAT YOU WANT WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR AUTOMOBILE REPAIRED. 'HAT IS THE KIND OF SERVICE THAT WE GIVE. KLL REPAIR WORK DONE BY EXPERTS AT REASONABLE PRICES AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. We have Mr. Edward Gettys, formery proprietor of the City Service Staion, associated with us. SIEBENHAUSEN & INMAN CITY SERVICE and REPAIR 5TAT1UJN. !, H. Siebenhausen R. M. Inman YORK, - - 8. C. >hone No. 156 Next to Police Station HE'STATE OF 80UTH CAROLINA York County. ty J. L. Houston, Esquire, Probate Judge of York County. In the Probate Court. yilEKEAS J. ERNEST THOMAS has applied to me for Letters of administration on all and singular, the oods and chattels, rights and credits f F. A. THOMAS, late of the county foresaid, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and, adtonlsh all and singular the kincLred nd creditors of ihe said deceased, to e and appear before me at our next 'robate Court for the said County, to e holden at York Court House on the 7TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1921, to hew cause, if,any, .why the said Adninistration shbuld not be granted, liven under my hand and seal this 9th uuy in ocijiriuuci, >11 me ji ?i vuLord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one and in the 146th year of American Independence. '(Seal) J. L. HOUSTON, Probate Judge of York County. 73 t 2t -t; ' J- ' ' ' i ? . , i A